It Went So Wrong
A (very) old place of work decided to have a Christmas party and provide everyone with a few vouchers each for free drinks. They’d arranged with the venue that employees would hand over one tag for any drink of any size, and would settle up in the days after the event. Well, it all went so wrong.
The problem was that these vouchers were simply tags that you’d put into a filing cabinet sleeve (and write on) with a colored sticky dot on them. They distributed the tickets half an hour before we closed for the party. Guess what was stocked in the stationery cabinet? Filing tags and sticky dots. They had no idea how the bar bill was nearly £10,000…